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... brought before us as vacated by the loss of conspicuous talents and charac- ter , * it may be permitted to me , with my avowed and notorious opinions on the subject of Parliamentary Constitu- tion , to state , without offence , that it ...
... brought before us as vacated by the loss of conspicuous talents and charac- ter , * it may be permitted to me , with my avowed and notorious opinions on the subject of Parliamentary Constitu- tion , to state , without offence , that it ...
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... brought me in an excellent salmon , and wants a good office at my hand , he says , in return . " " The bit fish is naething , man , " said Peter , sleeking down the hair on his brow ; " I wish he had been better for your sake - but gin ...
... brought me in an excellent salmon , and wants a good office at my hand , he says , in return . " " The bit fish is naething , man , " said Peter , sleeking down the hair on his brow ; " I wish he had been better for your sake - but gin ...
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... brought to his plantations , he would have produced one hundred thousand weight . The culture of the cane is found not to be more laborious than that of cotton , and is not liable to so many accidents . One thousand pounds per acre is ...
... brought to his plantations , he would have produced one hundred thousand weight . The culture of the cane is found not to be more laborious than that of cotton , and is not liable to so many accidents . One thousand pounds per acre is ...
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... brought to New York from Richmond and Li verpool . Lead , in like manner , was procured under additional disadvan- tages . These attempts of the enemy to frustrate the design were vain and impotent . All the obstacles were sur- mounted ...
... brought to New York from Richmond and Li verpool . Lead , in like manner , was procured under additional disadvan- tages . These attempts of the enemy to frustrate the design were vain and impotent . All the obstacles were sur- mounted ...
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... brought forward against Dr Gordon . We know that this gentleman was present at this dissection ; but it hap- pened not to be the week in which his official duty as one of the surgeons to the Infirmary would have given him the ...
... brought forward against Dr Gordon . We know that this gentleman was present at this dissection ; but it hap- pened not to be the week in which his official duty as one of the surgeons to the Infirmary would have given him the ...
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Página 369 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 274 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
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Página 487 - Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Página 281 - There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, "thou blessed child! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee; but now — " He hung his head ; each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence; In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can know. "There's a drop...
Página 282 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Página 290 - I do bear This punishment for both — that thou wilt be One of the blessed — and that I shall die ; For hitherto all hateful things conspire To bind me in existence — in a life Which makes me shrink from immortality — A future like the past.
Página 506 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...